FAR.AI · 13 hours ago
Research Engineer
Berkeley, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Entry, Mid, Senior Level
$100K/yr - $190K/yrFAR.AI is a non-profit AI research institute dedicated to ensuring advanced AI is safe and beneficial for everyone. The Research Engineer role involves developing scalable machine learning implementations and conducting scientific experiments while collaborating with scientists and contributing to open source projects.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)EventsNon Profit
Responsibilities
Develop scalable implementations of machine learning algorithms and use them to run scientific experiments
Contribute to open source codebases such as Pytorch, HuggingFace Transformers and Accelerate
Receive engineering mentorship via code review, pair programming and regular 1-to-1s
Involved in the write-up of results and credited as an author in papers
Propose novel directions and join a research pod which suits your interests
Qualification
Required
Have significant software engineering experience or experience applying machine learning methods. Evidence of this may include prior work experience, open-source contributions, or academic publications
Have experience with at least one object-oriented programming language (preferably Python)
Are results-oriented and motivated by impactful research
Preferred
Common ML frameworks like PyTorch or TensorFlow
Natural language processing or reinforcement learning
Operating system internals and distributed systems
Publications or open-source software contributions
Basic linear algebra, calculus, probability, and statistics
Benefits
We will also pay for work-related travel and equipment expenses.
We offer catered lunch and dinner at our offices in Berkeley.
Company
FAR.AI
FAR.AI is a technical AI research and education non-profit, dedicated to ensuring the safe development and deployment of frontier AI systems.
Founded in 2022
11-50 employees
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Early StageLeadership Team
Adam Gleave
Co-founder & CEO
Karl Berzins
President
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